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Don't know how real these photos are but they would certainly be interesting if they are. The Japanese did actually buy a Tiger from the Germans during the war, although the Germans did charge them twice the normal price and then never delivered it to the Japanese

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nice photos,

they look genuine, and it seems that they are shopping in europe if you know what i mean ryan :) .
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I think the japanese were invited to see Tiger's with the prospect of buying in late '43 however I believe they were more interested in the V1 program than new tanks.(japanese army didnt hold tanks in the same high military value as the Western nations)
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PanzerMart wrote:I think the japanese were invited to see Tiger's with the prospect of buying in late '43 however I believe they were more interested in the V1 program than new tanks.(japanese army didnt hold tanks in the same high military value as the Western nations)

Partially true. At the start of the war they didn't bother with tanks as they had no real need for them, China didn't have any, the British and the Americans only had a small handful of light tanks which were quickly swepted aside. But once the tide turned and large numbers of M3 and M4 tanks arrived the Japanese did start on an advanced tank program, part of which included buying a Tiger tank off the germans and developing there own heavy tanks weighing in excess of 100 tonnes
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I understood one was bult for them, and was sent for shipping, but before it could be loaded it was redirected to s.SS-Pz Abt 101 fighting in Normandie.
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The HMSO publication "Tiger" - the British evaluation of the Tiger captured in North Africa gives some info on the machine "sold" to Japan - how they ever thought they would get it out there in 1943 I don't know.
It was sold along with a quantity of ammunition , can put up any data on it as the book is on loan to a friend .

A while back I came across a photo of a FW-190 which was shipped to Japan ...... seemed odd to see it with "meat balls" on it.
The Japanese did seem to respect the quality of German materials - I remember reading how one Japanese officer admired to quality of build in the Arado 196 float plane and how he had to revise his own indoctrinated view of westerners when he observed how delicately the aircraft was flown.
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